Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

Monday, June 3, 2013 – Friday, July 26, 2013

Academic Exchange Program on Foreign Policy with U.S. State Department

Sunday, June 23, 2013 – Monday, August 5, 2013

Bard College CampusBard College is hosting a multinational group of 16 university-level scholars and educators for a six-week academic exchange program from June 23 to August 5, 2013. Entitled “Grand Strategy in Context: Institutions, People, and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy,” this Study of the U.S. Institute is designed to foster a better understanding in academic institutions overseas of how U.S. foreign policy is formulated, implemented, and taught. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

Aston Magna Concert Series

Shades of Love Lost - Madrigals of Monteverdi and Wert

Friday, July 5, 20138 pm

Olin Hall

The Festival continues with the intimate and expressive world of the Italian madrigal. Come hear Aston Magna’s vocal forces perform works by the 16th- and 17th-century masters of words and music proclaiming the power of love.

*Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m., and “Meet the Artists” following the concert at all venues.

Ticket purchases ONLY at: 845-758-7887

Five-concert series: $130 (a more than 25% savings); Three- or four-concert "mini series": $28 per ticket (a 20% savings); Single tickets: $35; senior citizens: $30. Students with valid full-time student ID, or under the age of 25, may purchase up to two $5 student rush tickets on the day of the performance. Student rush tickets are subject to availability.

“Like hanging out with a hip and funny friend who never fails to lift you up with her outrageous freedom.”—Los Angeles Times

The utterly original comic, singer, and writer Sandra Bernhard opens the 2013 Spiegeltent season with her raucous mix of political satire, pop culture commentary, and cabaret. Backed by a live band, Bernhard’s performances are a thrilling hybrid of stand-up comedy and rock ’n’ roll. “Give the dame her due,” writes the New York Times. “It’s invigorating to be in the presence of a true original.”

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Friday, July 5, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

The 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring created an uproar whose repercussions changed the course of dance and music in the 20th century. A hundred years later, two titans of the American performing arts have joined forces to create a thrilling new dance-theater performance that celebrates that legendary opening night.

A Rite is a collaboration between choreographer Bill T. Jones (a resident artist at Bard) and director Anne Bogart (a Bard alumna). Their respective companies of dancers and actors have come together to develop a contemporary response to Stravinsky’s masterpiece. A Rite explores the revolutionary context of The Rite of Spring, which premiered months before the outbreak of the First World War, and at the dawn of Cubism, Einstein’s theory of relativity, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Bogart and Jones have woven a new libretto drawn from sources including the writings of physicist Brian Greene, the diaries of war veterans, and Stravinsky’s score. Visually stunning and exploding with life, A Rite is a meditation on aspects of time: the time of the cosmos, the time of a human life, time expressed in music and dance. A unique opportunity to see two legendary artists at work together.

Running time for this performance is approximately 65 minutes without intermission.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Justin Vivian Bond Is Mx America

Saturday, July 6, 20138:30 pm

“Justin Vivian Bond is a transatlantic cabaret messiah”—Time Out London

Tony-nominated cabaret star Justin Vivian Bond returns to the Spiegeltent to offer a unique take on the American experience through the lens of a Miss America pageant. As the singular finalist in a highly unusual contest, Mx Bond expects to be judged in such categories as presentation, economic status, mental health, family values, and talent all while creating an elegantly formidable evening of beauty and delight.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Saturday, July 6, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

The 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring created an uproar whose repercussions changed the course of dance and music in the 20th century. A hundred years later, two titans of the American performing arts have joined forces to create a thrilling new dance-theater performance that celebrates that legendary opening night.

A Rite is a collaboration between choreographer Bill T. Jones (a resident artist at Bard) and director Anne Bogart (a Bard alumna). Their respective companies of dancers and actors have come together to develop a contemporary response to Stravinsky’s masterpiece. A Rite explores the revolutionary context of The Rite of Spring, which premiered months before the outbreak of the First World War, and at the dawn of Cubism, Einstein’s theory of relativity, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Bogart and Jones have woven a new libretto drawn from sources including the writings of physicist Brian Greene, the diaries of war veterans, and Stravinsky’s score. Visually stunning and exploding with life, A Rite is a meditation on aspects of time: the time of the cosmos, the time of a human life, time expressed in music and dance. A unique opportunity to see two legendary artists at work together.

Running time for this performance is approximately 65 minutes without intermission.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

Buke and Gase with Special Guest Sarah Neufeld from Arcade Fire

New Sounds in Indie Rock

Thursday, July 11, 20138:30 pm

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20

This Hudson- and Brooklyn-based duo creates gorgeous electric rock anthems with their homemade instruments, including the “buke” (an electrified six-string baritone ukulele) and the “gase” (a guitar-bass hybrid). Joined in this special concert by Arcade Fire’s violinist Sarah Neufeld.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Thursday, July 11, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Film: The Red Shoes

Friday, July 12, 20137 pm

Tickets: $12

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK, 132 minutes

One of the great color films, The Red Shoes is adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and takes the Ballets Russes as a model for total commitment to art (Diaghilev’s pupil Léonide Massine helped to choreograph the central dance sequence). 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

Aston Magna Concert Series

Music from the Library of Thomas Jefferson

Friday, July 12, 20138 pm

Olin Hall

Music was an important part of Thomas Jefferson’s life. He played violin as a boy and even attempted mastery in his early years at Monticello. He and his wife also studied fortepiano with an Italian violinist and harpsichordist who lived nearby. Years later in Paris, Jefferson expressed a great love of all the music he heard there. Not surprisingly, a number of gems by well-known composers were preserved in his library. The engaging soprano Sharon Baker will appear with violinist Daniel Stepner and harpsichordist Michael Sponseller in bringing you selections of Jefferson’s favorite music.

Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m., and “Meet the Artists” following the concert at all venues.

Ticket purchases ONLY at: 845-758-7887

Five-concert series: $130 (a more than 25% savings); Three- or four-concert "mini series": $28 per ticket (a 20% savings); Single tickets: $35; senior citizens: $30. Students with valid full-time student ID, or under the age of 25, may purchase up to two $5 student rush tickets on the day of the performance. Student rush tickets are subject to availability.

Jazz of 1920s Paris

Friday, July 12, 20138:30 pm

“The most foot-stomping, raucous jazz band in the world.”—The Music Playground

The Wall Street Journal calls the Hot Sardines “high-energy traditional jazz with a Parisian accent.” The collective, including a blustery brass lineup and a just-one-of-the-boys front-woman, creates music reminiscent of wartime Paris via New Orleans: a sound steeped in hot jazz, salty stride piano, and the kind of music Louis Armstrong used to make. This is straight-up, foot-stomping jazz from a near-century ago that stays resolutely in step with the current age.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Friday, July 12, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Film: The Lion of the Moguls

Saturday, July 13, 20132 pm

The most reflexive of the émigré films, The Lion of the Moguls is also one of the most fascinating – a comic gem demonstrating the wide-ranging talent of the Russian colony in Paris. The new, color-tinted Desmet 35mm print was restored by La Cinémathèque française with the collaboration of the Franco-American Cultural Fund - DGA MPA SACEM WGA.

This screening will include live piano accompaniment by Ben Model and will preceded by a lecture by series curator Richard Suchenski. Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Film: Casanova

Saturday, July 13, 20137 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12

Alexandre Volkoff, 1927, France, 132 minutes

A visually lush superproduction starring Ivan Mozzhukhin and directed by one of the most important Russian émigré filmmakers, Casanova blends witty gags with epic scope and is as remarkable for its stylistic exuberance as its elaborate sets. The color-tinted print was restored by the Cinémathèque française.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

EVIYAN

Iva Bittová, Evan Ziporyn, Gyan Riley

Saturday, July 13, 20138:30 pm

EVIYAN is a new trio that joins three world-class musicians in an intimate, acoustic blend of world root, jazz, rock, and cabaret. Vocalist/violinist Iva Bittová draws on the sounds of her native Moravia and the rich traditions of the Roma people; clarinetist and composer Evan Ziporyn, a founder of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, studied with Balinese gamelan masters and collaborated with virtuoso musicians from around the world; guitarist Gyan Riley combines the virtuosity of classical guitar and Hindustani music with the deftness of jazz and the grit of rock ’n’ roll. These eclectic, genre-crossing musicians together create a soundtrack for the 21st-century global village.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Saturday, July 13, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Film: Double Love and L’or des mers

Sunday, July 14, 20133 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12

Double LoveLe double amour, Jean Epstein, 1925, France, 104 minutes

L'or des mersJean Epstein, 1932, France, 72 minutes

This special presentation of two rare films by the same director offers a chance to explore the options available to ambitious filmmakers in this period. Both prints were restored by La Cinémathèque française. The new tinted Desmet 35mm print of Double Love was restored with the collaboration of The Franco-American Cultural Fund - DGA MPA SACEM WGA.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

Hungry March Band

Anarchist Brass Band

Thursday, July 18, 20138:30 pm

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20

“The Hungry March Band is a mix of quirkiness and tradition.”—New York Times

Hungry March Band blares forth with a totally original sound that digests music from wherever brass bands are heard—the Balkans, India, New Orleans, Latin America—and combines it with big band, free jazz, and punk rock. Put on your dancing shoes, because they’ve got a party going on!

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Thursday, July 18, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

The film that allegedly convinced Jean Renoir to direct, The Burning Brazier demonstrates Ivan Mozzhukhin’s flamboyant eccentricity at its finest. Mozzhukhin also wrote Passing Shadows, a comic masterwork inspired by Chaplin and Keaton. This is the North American premiere screening of new, color-tinted restorations by the Cinémathèque française.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

John Kelly: Rebel Songs

Friday, July 19, 20138:30 pm

“When he sings, he brings the taste, attitude and high style of a great art-song interpreter to the stage along with a self-mocking sense of humor.”—New York Times

Spiegeltent aficionados will remember the legendary cabaret artist John Kelly from his Joni Mitchell tribute Paved Paradise, and for his astonishing three-octave vocal range. John returns to the Spiegeltent to perform Rebel Songs of a Range Queen, featuring music by Kurt Weill, Charles Aznavour, The Incredible String Band, Mister Bungle, Jacques Brel, Holcombe Waller, and The Shins.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Friday, July 19, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Film: The Late Mathias Pascal

Saturday, July 20, 20132 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12

Feu Mathias Pascal, Marcel L’Herbier, 1926, France, 175 minutes

The Late Mathias Pascal is an utterly unique synthesis of Ivan Mozzhukhin’s mercurial acting, Marcel L’Herbier’s cool elegance, and the labyrinthine structure of Luigi Pirandello’s source novel about a man who pretends he is dead. This is the North American premiere screening of a new, color-tinted restoration by the Cinémathèque française.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

5:30 pmCocktails and Dinner from famed New York City's Restaurant Daniel in the spectacularly decorated Spiegeltent and Garden

8:15 pmSpecial Performances and Appearances in the Sosnoff Theater*Emceed by Tommy Tune and featuring Frank Gehry, David Strathairn, Roberta Flack, a star duo from the Bard Conservatory, an excerpt of SummerScape 2013 Opera, Taneyev's Oresteia, and much more!*program in formation

9:30 pmBubbly and Bon Bons in the Sosnoff Theater

Experience the Fisher Center at Bard and join our celebration and make it yours.

Film: The Lower Depths

Saturday, July 20, 20137 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12

Les bas-fonds, Jean Renoir, 1936, France, 90 minutes

In the last major Albatros production and one of the key films of the Popular Front, Jean Renoir continues his reinvention of theatrical adaptation, using Maxim Gorky’s classic play and a charismatic performance by Jean Gabin to create “a realistic poem on the loss of human dignity.”

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Saturday, July 20, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Film: The Living Image

Sunday, July 21, 20132 pm

Marcel L’Herbier traces the journey of a Russian family from Petrograd to Nice, expressing the emotions of the story through sets and costumes designed in collaboration with Robert Mallet-Stevens and Robert and Sonia Delaunay. The 35mm print was restored by the Archives françaises du film du CNC, Bois d’Arcy.

Opening Reception: Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Sunday, July 21, 20132–5 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYJoin us for the opening of the annual Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition, featuring projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Train Station Shuttle

Note: Due to a freight train derailment on the Metro North line, we have adjusted our shuttle service for Sunday's opening to Rhinecliff Amtrak station. We will NOT be running a shuttle to Poughkeepsie.

A shuttle will meet two incoming Amtrak trains, arriving Rhinecliff at 12:57pm and at 2:57pm. The shuttle will return passengers to the 5:06pm train back to New York City. Detailed schedule below.

Arriving train 1: Take the Empire Service 233 train, leaving NY Penn Station at 11:20am, arriving Rhinecliff at 12:57pm.

A white Bard shuttle will depart from the road outside the Rhinecliff station at approximately 1:05pm.

The shuttle will first stop at the Bard CCS Hessel Museum (approx 1:25pm) and then proceed to the Fisher Studio Arts parking lot (approx 1:30pm). You may view exhibitions at CCS or the sound installation at Bard Hall (next to Fisher Studio Arts).

The shuttle will depart CCS at 2:10pm, then depart Fisher Studio Arts at 2:15pm, and proceed to UBS for the Thesis Exhibition.

Arriving train 2: Take the Empire Service 283 train, leaving NY Penn Station at 1:20pm, arriving Rhinecliff at 2:57pm.

A white Bard shuttle will depart from the road outside the Rhinecliff station at approximately 3:05pm and proceed directly to UBS for the Thesis Exhibition.

The shuttle will also make two additional runs between Bard and campus, departing UBS at 3:30pm and 4:00pm, taking passengers to CCS and Fisher Studio Arts before returning to UBS.

Departing train: Shuttle departs UBS at 4:30pm for the Empire Service 244 train leaving Rhinecliff at 5:06pm, arriving Penn Station at 6:50pm.

To reserve a space on the shuttle, please email mfa@bard.edu and give your name, cell phone, number of passengers, and which train you will arrive on.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

Film: The New Gentlemen

Sunday, July 21, 20135:30 pm

Jacques Feyder’s satirical treatment of Third Republic politics is distinguished for its location footage in Paris as well as its comic verve. This is the North American premiere screening of a new restoration by the Cinémathèque française.

One hot spring evening, a foreign professor appears in Moscow, with a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and a giant talking cat with a taste for vodka. This elegant stranger is none other than the Devil, come to wreak havoc on the city, and to demonstrate to a godless world the truth of good and evil.

What follows is a story of unceasing verve and imagination, a joyous and sometimes terrifying journey that transports us from the alleyways and garrets of Moscow to the stage of a theater, from the deserts of biblical Judea to the glittering splendor of the Devil’s ballroom. And at the still center of this supernatural frenzy stands a pair of lovers: the Master, a writer, and Margarita, who must journey to hell to save him.

A contemporary of Stravinsky, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote The Master and Margarita in the 1930s, but its satirical vision of the Soviet Union under Stalin was so acute that the novel was suppressed until 1967. The internationally renowned Hungarian film and theater director János Szász will apply his opulent theatrical vision to this new stage adaptation of Bulgakov’s beloved novel, now justly regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century. Suitable for audiences 15 and older (contains nudity).

This performance has been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation and has also received support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Running time for the concert is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.

Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Monday, July 22, 201310 am – 6 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYAnnual exhibition of thesis projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Presentations on Bard College Campus

Sunday, July 21 through Sunday, July 28Installation by Jimmy Johnson (Music/Sound) in Bard Hall

Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Tuesday, July 23, 201310 am – 6 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYAnnual exhibition of thesis projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Presentations on Bard College Campus

Sunday, July 21 through Sunday, July 28Installation by Jimmy Johnson (Music/Sound) in Bard Hall

Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Wednesday, July 24, 201310 am – 6 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYAnnual exhibition of thesis projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Presentations on Bard College Campus

Sunday, July 21 through Sunday, July 28Installation by Jimmy Johnson (Music/Sound) in Bard Hall

Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Thursday, July 25, 201310 am – 6 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYAnnual exhibition of thesis projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Presentations on Bard College Campus

Sunday, July 21 through Sunday, July 28Installation by Jimmy Johnson (Music/Sound) in Bard Hall

Ikebe Shakedown

Soul, Afro-funk, and deep disco

Thursday, July 25, 20138:30 pm

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20

“Re-creates the kind of vibrant vintage funk that sends crate-digging DJs into spasms of joy.”—Time Out New York

Ikebe Shakedown delivers a driving set of tunes featuring signature Afrobeat elements. The band’s mighty horn section is anchored by tight, deep-pocketed grooves. Okayplayer called their debut album “an adventurous trip through time” and “one of the best releases of the year.”

Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Friday, July 26, 201310 am – 6 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYAnnual exhibition of thesis projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Presentations on Bard College Campus

Sunday, July 21 through Sunday, July 28Installation by Jimmy Johnson (Music/Sound) in Bard Hall

Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) defied tradition when he composed his musical trilogy Oresteia. Rather than calling upon Russian history or folk tales, as most Russian operas had to that point, Taneyev looked to Greek antiquity, basing the libretto on Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy—Agamemnon, Choephorae, and Eumenides—which chronicles the calamities that befell the accursed House of Atreus.

This production at the Fisher Center is the first time this towering work has been staged in its entirety outside of Russia since its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Sung in the original Russian, Oresteia is directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, who returns to SummerScape after his acclaimed productions in previous seasons of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.

Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.

Reserve the best seats in the house and special parking for all your Fisher Center performances through premium seating. Call 845-758-7948 for these special seats and benefits.

Running time for this performance is approximately three hours and 40 minutes, including two intermissions.

Film: L'inhumaine

Friday, July 26, 20137 pm

One of the signature films of the silent era, the quintessentially modern L’inhumaine restages the riotous premiere of Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps and connects Symbolist aestheticism to Art Deco design. The 35mm print was restored by the Archives françaises du film du CNC, Bois d’Arcy.

Taylor Mac Sings the American Songbook (1920s)

World Premiere

Friday, July 26, 20138:30 pm

“Taylor Mac seduces you, breaks your heart, patches it back up again and sews sequins along the scars.”—Irish Times

Obie-winning playwright, actor, and singer-songwriter Taylor Mac returns to the Spiegeltent with a chapter of his most ambitious performance yet. Over the next two years Taylor will sing 24 concerts, each celebrating a decade of popular music, ultimately stitching all 24 concerts together in a marathon extravaganza. For this show, Taylor and his band will premiere his concert of the glorious music and culture of the 1920s—a one-of-a-kind experience that includes a mash-up of surrealism, Ulysses, flappers, and women’s suffrage.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Friday, July 26, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Saturday, July 27, 20131–5 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYAnnual exhibition of thesis projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Presentations on Bard College Campus

Sunday, July 21 through Sunday, July 28Installation by Jimmy Johnson (Music/Sound) in Bard Hall

The first adaptation of a novel by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, who wrote the libretto for Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat, Rapt features a nuanced performance by Dita Parlo and makes extraordinary use of mountain landscapes, contrapuntal sound, and an original score by Arthur Honegger.The 35mm prints are courtesy of La Cinémathèque française and La Cinémathèque suisse, with kind support from the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

Film: The Truth and Altair

Saturday, July 27, 20136:30 pm

In Henri-Georges Clouzot’s response to the French New Wave, Brigitte Bardot’s relationship with a young composer is linked to Stravinsky’s The Firebird, the same piece used in Lewis Klahr’s experimental short Altair.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann makes his Spiegeltent debut with Hello Earth!, a journey into the mysterious songbook of British pop recluse and cult hero Kate Bush, who first won acclaim at age 18 with her 1978 hit Wuthering Heights. Noted for her cerebral lyrics, melding of musical genres, and lush instrumental arrangements, Bush is a forerunner to artists such as Björk and Joanna Newsom. Far more than simply re-creating Bush’s music, Bleckmann transports it to other realms with his astonishingly agile voice and distinctive vision. One of the most revered singers of his generation, Bleckmann creates a new interpretation that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful.

Film: Pierrot le fou

Saturday, July 27, 20139 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12

Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France/Italy, 110 minutes

Jean-Luc Godard’s classic exploration of love on the run—starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina—can be compared, in both its formal ingenuity and emotional range, to Stravinsky’s treatment ofmythological themes.

After Hours at the Spiegeltent

Saturday, July 27, 201310 pm – 12:30 am

Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 1710 pm to 12:30 am$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performanceAll-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *Drinks and after-hours dining available

Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.

*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition

Sunday, July 28, 20131–5 pm

Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYAnnual exhibition of thesis projects by third-year Master of Fine Arts students in Film/Video, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Free and open to the public.

Directions

UBS/Bard College Exhibition Center29 O'Callaghan Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571Parking at 7401 S. Broadway and on Garden StreetFrom the paved lot on S. Broadway, walk to the left of the brick building at 7401 and down the driveway. Go around the building directly in front of you at 27 O'Callaghan Drive. The next building on your left is the Exhibition Center.

From the grass lot on Garden Street, take the path from the back end of the lot through the woods into the gravel parking lot. The Exhibition Center is the long building to the right.

Handicap accessible parking is available in front of the gallery building. Please note that the lot is also an active construction work area on weekdays.

Presentations on Bard College Campus

Sunday, July 21 through Sunday, July 28Installation by Jimmy Johnson (Music/Sound) in Bard Hall

Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) defied tradition when he composed his musical trilogy Oresteia. Rather than calling upon Russian history or folk tales, as most Russian operas had to that point, Taneyev looked to Greek antiquity, basing the libretto on Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy—Agamemnon, Choephorae, and Eumenides—which chronicles the calamities that befell the accursed House of Atreus.

This production at the Fisher Center is the first time this towering work has been staged in its entirety outside of Russia since its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Sung in the original Russian, Oresteia is directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, who returns to SummerScape after his acclaimed productions in previous seasons of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.

Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.

Reserve the best seats in the house and special parking for all your Fisher Center performances through premium seating. Call 845-758-7948 for these special seats and benefits.

Running time for this performance is approximately three hours and 40 minutes, including two intermissions.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Midsummer Dancing: Salsa

Sunday, July 28, 20135:30 pm

Back by popular demand for a second year, Albany-based dancers Diane Lachtrupp and Johnny Martinez bring big-sound Latin band Sensemaya for an evening of fast and furious live music and Latin and salsa dancing

Taking Cuban and Puerto Rican rhythms as a starting point, Sensemaya fuses hot Latin dance rhythms with the cool sophistication of jazz improvisation. Their repertoire includes “funkified” interpretations of classic salsa and originals written in the revolutionary timba style of Cuba. Their own uniquely fresh Latin jazz compositions include a variety of styles from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Brazil and the Dominican Republic that always have audiences jumping out of their seats and onto the dance floor.

Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) defied tradition when he composed his musical trilogy Oresteia. Rather than calling upon Russian history or folk tales, as most Russian operas had to that point, Taneyev looked to Greek antiquity, basing the libretto on Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy—Agamemnon, Choephorae, and Eumenides—which chronicles the calamities that befell the accursed House of Atreus.

This production at the Fisher Center is the first time this towering work has been staged in its entirety outside of Russia since its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Sung in the original Russian, Oresteia is directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, who returns to SummerScape after his acclaimed productions in previous seasons of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.

Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.

Reserve the best seats in the house and special parking for all your Fisher Center performances through premium seating. Call 845-758-7948 for these special seats and benefits.

Running time for this performance is approximately three hours and 40 minutes, including two intermissions.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.

Doors open at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $13 in advance and $15 at the door. Get Tickets

Following an opening set of folk-inspired music by Shawn Jaeger and Donnacha Dennehy, Contemporaneous will play with “pop polymath” Jherek Bischoff in a full set of his fresh, energetic music, including world premiere works and arrangements.

When Jherek Bischoff is not playing bass on tour with Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra, he is writing, performing, and recording his own orchestral and chamber music. This show will feature Jherek performing and guest appearances by singer Jen Goma (of People Get Ready) and drummer Greg Saunier (of Deerhoof).

Both Shawn Jaeger and Donnacha Dennehy take musical inspiration from folk traditions of their homes and string together texts from traditional songs in powerful settings that explore love and death. Featuring Contemporaneous soprano Lucy Dhegrae MM '12, the roots of Jaeger’s Letters Made with Gold come from Appalachian folk music and Old Regular Baptist hymnody. Dennehy’s love for the sean-nós tradition of Ireland comes through in Grá agus Bás (translated: Love and Death), which will feature Contemporaneous vocalist Finnegan Shanahan '14.